The Vile Village (2001) (edit title/settings)

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• Violet Baudelaire: Oldest of the Baudelaire siblings, smart, inventor, pulls her hair up in a ribbon when thinking about an invention
• Klaus Baudelaire: Middle child of the family, genius, reads everything he can
• Sunny Baudelaire: Youngest; baby, four very sharp teeth, likes to bite, talks in baby jibberish that only Violet and Klaus can understand, bites everything
• Duncan Quagmire: Baudelaire's friend and journalist,and Isadora's brother
• Jacques Snicket: A man looking for the Baudelaires, possibly someone who could have told them more about their parents' murder, but unfortunately, he died.
• Isadora Quagmire: Baudelaire's friend,Duncan's sister,and poet
• Hector: Caretaker of the Baudelaires. He works as a handyman for the Elders of V.F.D.
• Count Olaf: Some unknown relation to the Baudelaires, villain, still after Baudelaire fortune, now captured friends of the Baudelaires
• Mr. Poe: Oversees all actions towards the Baudelaires and seems to have a constant cold

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• “For Beatrice--When we were together I felt breathless. Now, you are.”

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• “Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of ‘systematically assisting Sisyphus’s stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,’ which is easier done than said.”

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• No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.

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• “‘Murder’ is the word for a group of crows, like a flock of geese or a herd of cows or a convention of orthodontists.

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• For sapphires we are held in here. Only you can end our fear.

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• Until dawn comes we cannot speak. No words can come from this sad beak.

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• “Fata morgana is when your eyes play tricks on you, particularly in hot weather,”

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• “Small potatoes” is a phrase which has nothing to do with root vegetables that happen to be tiny in size. Instead, it refers to the change in one’s feelings for something when it is compared with something else. If you were walking in the rain, for instance, you might be worried about getting wet, but if you turned the corner and saw a pack of vicious dogs, getting wet would suddenly become small potatoes next to getting chased down an alley and barked at, or possibly eaten.

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• “Count Olaf has been captured,” she said, and the Baudelaires felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck them once more.

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• The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen. An aphorism is merely a small group of words arranged in a certain order because they sound good that way, but oftentimes people tend to say them as if they were saying something very mysterious and wise.

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• Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you.

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• If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled “How to Build a Chair” instead of a cookbook, your pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

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• Town Hall
• Nevermore Tree: the tree where the crows rest.
• Fowl Fountain
• The Village of Fowl Devotees: Where the Baudelaire orphans chose to stay.

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• VFD: The Quagmires had tried to tell the Baudelaires the secret of VFD and Count Olaf

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Glossary edit see section history

• Punctilio: This word is the name of a daily newspaper. The newspaper is called the Daily Punctilio. I think that this is a really wierd name for a newspaper.
• Murder: A group of crows is called a murder.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Ersatz Elevator, and followed by The Hostile Hospital.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lemony Snicket (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Brett Helquist (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PZ7.S6795 Vi 2001
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › Siblings › Fiction
• Books › Teens › Authors, A-Z › ( S ) › Snicket, Lemony
• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › Orphans & Foster Homes
• Books › Children's Books › Series › Fantasy & Adventure › Series of Unfortunate Events
• Books › Children's Books › Authors & Illustrators, A-Z › ( S ) › Snicket, Lemony
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Humorous
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Action & Adventure
• Books › Children's Books › Ages 9-12

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (IMDb): 2004, this movie is based on the first three books of the series.

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